Sport and Alcohol
Alcohol acts as a diuretic which can lead to a picture of dehydration during sports, and because their intake increases fluid loss, there is also a greater loss of vitamins and minerals essential for the proper practice sports such as potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and calcium.
Alcohol is quickly absorbed into the body and impairs the metabolism of other nutrients at the same time generating an inhibitory effect on the oxidation of fats, which can cause weight gain at the expense of unwanted body fat.
Among other negative effects on metabolism, we can say that ethanol increases the degradation of proteins, which of course hurts the lean mass of our body.
For all the reasons aforesaid, it appears that alcohol decreases performance, reduces the strength and power, and alters the normal movements required for proper physical performance. Also adversely affect the body composition of athletes to reduce muscle mass and increase body fat.
Ethyl alcohol or ethanol acts throughout the body, is absorbed directly the 20% and circulation and the rest sanginea metabolized in the liver, transforming aldehydes, where its effect is more noticed in the central nervous system, where it is a depressant, the first effect by blocking the frontal lobe where the principles, ethics, morality and social brakes seem that stimulates and encourages, affects the central nervous system, leading to states of euphoria, disinhibition, dizziness, drowsiness , hallucinations (as they are seeing double or everything is moving spontaneously), confusion. At the same time, low glare. With higher concentrations slowed movements, prevents the proper coordination of the limbs, temporary loss of vision, and so on. In some cases there is an increase in irritability of the subject as well as intoxicated aggression, in another a certain number of individuals affected area that controls impulses, becoming frantic and uncontrolled impulse.
Alcohol recognized as a legal drug, 85% of the population drink alcohol to try and even been proven to improve in small doses as a glass of wine, the quality of the arteries and prevent heart disease. To continue drinking daily or periodically changes are taking place in other tissues and organs, fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis with vascular complications, esophageal varices, gastrointestinal bleeding, impaired absorption of nutritional products from enteritis, in the heart, myocarditis alcoholic dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias and so on., hypertension or hypotension, endocrine disorders such as hypo-or hyperthyroidism, menstrual cycle disorders and fetal alcohol syndrome, impotence in men, neuritis and polyneuritis, and so on. etc.
However, we must not forget that drinking 2 glasses of wine in question in the case of men and 1 glass for women has significant benefits on cardiovascular health.